Lexington

A former Lexington mayor will spotlight that city's Hunt-Morgan House at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the March 14 Second Thursday program at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum. H. Foster Pettit, mayor of Lexington from 1972 to 1978 and a partner with Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, will speak. Pettit and his wife Brenda are co-chairs of the 2013 BGT Antiques and Garden Show. He was a state representative from 1964 to 1970 and served on the Kentucky State Crime Commission from 1967 to 1971. Pettit served as president of the Kentucky League of Cities in 1976.

Jessamine County could have split representation in the Kentucky House of Representatives as soon as the end of the week, with historically conservative Wilmore joining a Lexington district currently represented by a Republican. The county, which is currently entirely in Democratic Rep. Bob Damron's 39th District along with a small portion of southern Lexington, had to be split after its population of 48,586 in the 2010 Census was larger than the legislative district size. A plan from the Democrats in the House approved last week would move the Harrodsburg Road corridor and all of the city of Wilmore into Rep. Stan Lee's 45th District.

West Jessamine High School assistant principal Jimmy Brehm has been named the principal at Garden Springs Elementary in Lexington starting in the 2012-2013 school year. Brehm was introduced Monday at Garden Springs. He will retain his current duties at West Jessamine High School through the end of the school year. In a message to school staff Monday night, Brehm said he had been privileged to spend six years around the high school as a coach and assistant principal and that the greatest part of his job had been working with students, staff and a community that “believe ardently that education provides students with the opportunities they deserve.” Brehm has spent seven years in Jessamine County, coaching baseball at East Jessamine before teaching fifth grade at Nicholasville Elementary and then seventh grade at West Jessamine Middle.

Becky and Adam McCraith announce the birth of their daughter, Lauren Mimms McCraith. She was born Sept. 9 at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington at 11:01 a.m. She weighed 6 pounds and 5 ounces and was 18 3/4 inches long. Her grandparents are Rebecca McCraith of Lexington, Ron McCraith of Danville and John and Cindy Gaines. Her great-grandparents are the late P.J. and Mary Mimms Conkwright and John and Della Gaines. She has two older brothers, Connor and Gratz.

The man who was savagely beaten on Vince Road Monday night has died, Jessamine County Sheriff chief deputy Allen Peel said Wednesday afternoon. James Dean Wallace, 32, of Lexington died Wednesday morning at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. Curtis L. Flora, 36, of Lexington has been charged with first-degree assault, but Peel said those charges would most likely be upgraded during Flora's 2 p.m. court hearing on Monday.  “I have notified the county attorney because he has a hearing this Monday in District Court, and I have also notified the commonwealth's attorney,” Peel said.

A Major League Baseball player from Lexington who is currently with the Cleveland Indians was arrested in Jessamine County on DUI charges Feb. 12. Austin Kearns, 30, was taken to the Jessamine County Detention Center early Saturday morning, Feb. 12, after being stopped by an off-duty Lexington police officer, according to a Jessamine County sheriff’s report obtained by The Journal on Monday. The Lexington officer said Kearns was “flashing his headlights and weaving on U.S. 68” in a 2007 Cadillac Escalade, according to the report.

LEXINGTON - The 220 member Lafayette High School Band - the “Pride of The Bluegrass” - eagerly is preparing for its upcoming performance in the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Lafayette is the first Lexington band to appear in the event. Selected for its award-winning style in musical sound and excellence in precision marching, the band will be one of approximately 20 musical groups performing in the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1. The theme of this year's parade is, “Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Haley Tye was 3 years old when she first decided she was going to be Clark County's Distinguished Young Woman, formerly known as Junior Miss. She was crowned as the winner during a rehearsal and demonstration of the format for the local program that year by Donna Fuller, who still oversees the program in Clark County. Later that evening, Tye announced to her family she was the new Junior Miss. Now Tye is a senior at George Rogers Clark High School and her title is a bit more official.

Dear Editor: It seems like that this town is not very happy with itself. We have to have restaurants that serve beer come to our fair city. What about restaurants that don't serve it? I take it our city leaders don't need them. Because Lexington got a smoking ban, we need one now. I hope Danville has enough funds to put more police on duty to protect the public from the dreaded smoker, since they put everybody's life on the line every time they light up. If you followed the Lexington smoking ban, then you saw how most decent restaurants handled the problem of keeping smokers at their place.